Yes, that's right! There's a little goat in this recipe.
Kid #2 suffers from a sensitive gut--nothing serious. Through practicing an elimination diet, and taking copious notes on what he ate, time, and how he felt 20, 40, 90, 120 minutes later (additionally we would check him 4-6 hours after eating), we narrowed his "trigger" foods. Immediately, we focused on dairy and gluten, two common irritants.
While gluten is fine for our little guy, dairy in large amounts causes pain and bloating (and all of the other nasty things that go along with a sensitivity to lactose--I will spare you the details!).
Although we don't typically drink milk in this home, we do eat cheese and yogurt; additionally, we occasionally bake with milk so finding a substitute for cow dairy was essential.
Thankfully there's goat dairy. Goat dairy does have lactose, however, it's easier to digest which often allows otherwise sensitive people to be able to freely consume goat milk products. Goat's milk, unlike the cheese, is sweet similar to cow milk making it an easy substitute in baking.
After determining that our little guy is sensitive to cow dairy, we immediately switched him over to goat dairy and he has been doing great!
Additionally, he has become a little "foodie" in the making; currently, his pizza of choice is goat cheese and mushroom...very sophisticated!
Now the recipe...
Hearty Banana Oat-Goat Bread
Ingredients
1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
2 T whole flax seed
1/2 cup sucanat or brown sugar
1 T baking powder
1/4 t baking soda
2 t cinnamon
4 eggs
1 cup smashed bananas
1/2 cup goats milk (although cow dairy, or unsweetened rice milk can be used too)
1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 t vanilla
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a 9x5 loaf pan with oil or butter and dust with flour.
In a large bowl mix together all dry ingredients.
In another bowl beat the eggs until bubbly--about 2 minutes. Then pour in bananas, vanilla, milk and applesauce and stir.
Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until completely blended. Pour into prepared loaf pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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3 comments:
Just found your blog a few days ago. I love it. I grew up in Citrus Heights so it was fun to see you lived around there. We are now in the Minneapolis area.
How did you go about doing the elimination diet for your son? I have been considering it for my son. We pulled him off gluten, and he is doing better, but he tested negative for celiac and any gluten sensitivities. Although he is doing much better, he still has uncontrollable anger and irritability and still some digestive issues. I would love to help him feel better. Just not sure how. Thanks!
Hi tammy, I received several inquiries like yours, so I think I should write a post about it!
It wasn't scientific, just common sense mixed in with a little "Dr. Mom."
My husband and I carried around a note pad keeping notes of everything he ate. If it was something processed like crackers, we noted the ingredients.
We kept a log of how he felt after he ate during the previously mentioned time frame(s).
We immediately focused on the "usual suspects" gluten, dairy, and excessive sugar. Eliminating all three.
After a couple of weeks off dairy, gluten and (added) sugars we started slowly adding them back
We kept the log for approx 3 weeks. After 3 weeks we looked for patterns.
I addition to dairy, food dyes, MSG, and carbonation also appear to trigger an upset gut.
One more thing, we also added a childrens probiotic supplement, which has made a noticable difference.
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